Halo: Reach first-week activity crushes Halo 3's all-time high

You probably didn't need anyone to tell you that Halo: Reach is destined to set Xbox 360 and Xbox Live charts on fire, but you might not know what Bungie managed to find out about your little teabagging sessions during the first week of launch. Xbox Live's Major Nelson confirmed that Halo: Reach was the number one game played on Xbox Live for the past seven days, bolstered by almost four times the number of unique players who jumped into Halo 3 during its own launch week.

In fact, Bungie reports that the number of XBL players on Halo: Reach over the past week alone were enough to topple Halo 3's all-time high of concurrent XBL users by over 65 percent. The developer managed to scrounge up plenty more factoids from all the Halo: Reach games which have been played so far: